Spain : David Bisbal & Belgium : Maarten Cox

Spain ... where to start. I have visited several times and fell for the cuicine,music and lifestyle. I could even reveal, that my first destination with airplane was Spain, Costa del Sol in 1985. One of the motivation were the fabulous Paloma San Basilio who sang for Spain that year in Eurovision Song Contest with the song " la fiesta termino". It still is quite an mystery why it got so little points from everywhere, but I am pleased how her career didn´t suffer from that one bit. And do I add her song here after all this text, no I don´t :) You must visit youtube :)

David Bisbal, born 1979, took part in Operacion Triunfo in 2002 and came 2nd in the end. This was marvellous serie, which brought dozens of artists to the spanish and latin musicworld. David Bisbal is simply put amazing and an real megastar sold over 5 million albums and received more than 60 golden and platinarecords. 10th album is just released and I chose the number one from spanish charts to this blog "diez mil maneras"  ten thousand ways.
I have several his albums,not live-albums as I fancy more studio. http://www.davidbisbal.com/

Belgium, small country with so many languages and differences. I have been there few times and each time I do discover something new. Sure I have own evergreens, where I return every time such city is Brügge. Belgium is known for it´s chocolate, lace and yeah homebase for European Union. One victory from Eurovision Song Contest, 1986 by Sandra Kim.

After a hard listening I came back to the easy way out from my dilemma of what to choose. This song " vrij" free  is nr1 in flemish charts. Maarten Cox,born 1985 on same day actually as I am March 30th :)  He took part in Idools 2004 and came 6th. He started singing in childrenschoir De Piccolo´s since he was 8 years old. He´s also tvhost in TV Limburg. More you can find out from his website http://www.maartencox.be/